Re: How do you include your cat in the Halloween fun?

Every year all of our pets get special treats or toys on the holidays such as Halloween that they wouldn't normally get! Shorty does love to play dress up though, so I will try to get a pic of him in a Halloween costume this year and post it!

Re: How do you include your cat in the Halloween fun?

My cats are spoiled, and have more toys than some children... but I always use holidays as a chance to give them new toys and throw out the old ones. Sometimes I try to get cute holiday-themed toys for them, or I just pick up a couple new versions of their favorite toys. They're getting some new toy mice this Halloween because I just had to throw out a bunch that were missing butts. I can't wait to see them carrying them around in their mouths!!

My husband and I make a big production about giving them their toys so they get all excited... and soon they're standing on their hind legs, batting, jumping, and we have ourselves a little family play session before we just let them go off with their toys on their own. It usually ends with one of them stealing both toys and sitting on one while playing with the other... and then it's treat time

Okay, let me rephrase that... we take joy and fun from all ya'all who dress your pets up and play with them. We tried dressing ours up... they hated it. I would love to greet trick or treaters with one of my dogs dressed up like, oh, Dracula. But, they won't have it. They just want to bark.

As for the cat - she's still not sure she wants to join us upstairs. She hangs out in her 'area' in our family room, mostly. So, I wonder what the ringing of the doorbell Halloween night will do. Will it freak her out, do you think?

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